#({like a headanon post about fav being autistic which i adored} i do like to review usages beforehand bc i like to scream abt such things)

Anonymous asked:

Are you incapable of making your own post? Why did you add on to that poor persons Merlin post when they dont care about Destiel? And youre too lazy to make your own gifs lol okay. Please dont add on to posts that arent yours. So fucking lazy and annoying.

destiel-wings answered:

Hey, if you're the op who made the post, I sincerely apologize. If you don't want that kind of addition i can delete it, no problem.

I love merthur and i love destiel too, and I added that scene from spn to make a comparison between the two ships. It wasn't meant to take anything away from the original post, but my intention was to give it a new light in addition (as people do on this site) by drawing a parallel with another piece of media. A lot of destiel fans love merthur too and i thought the op could get more reblogs and likes on their gif this way (reaching another fandom too).

I know how to make my own posts, I did plenty of them, actually.

What i don't know how to do is gifs, and i have deep appreciation for people who make them, and it is my understanding that they like exposure for their posts, so that their hard work can reach more people.

This is why i reblogged it.

My tags on the reblog were about both ships, i didn't deviate from the original post ignoring it to only talk about another ship (which would've been rude), so i didn't think it could be offensive in any way.

destiel-wings

this is the anon I got after my reply:

Since I don't even know where to start I've decided i won't comment on this altogether, instead I'll run a poll:

slytherkins

What is anon smoking? Are they new here? Are they 12? This is ridiculous.

Children, gather round and let me learn you a thing about tumblr:

We make a sport of hijacking posts and sending them in wildly unexpected directions. Pick any Heritage post and it's exactly that. Just off the fucking rails. Once you post a thing, you have relinquished control of it. That's just the way it works. And anyone can at any time reblog a previous version without any add on they don't care for or agree with. It takes literally nothing away from OP to add something to a post. And this OP is lucky the reblog addition wasn't just fucking nonsense.

Anon, if you're OP, you have a very skewed understanding of how things work here. Stop harassing this person, follow more people, accept that you can't control the internet, and go outside and touch some fucking grass.

ltleflrt

Also, putting your thoughts in the tags is a relatively new thing. We started doing it as a way to whisper a joyous "OH PRETTY" so that there wasn't a massive chain of reblogs that just said "OH PRETTY!" "my beloved" "mood", etc, that people would have to scroll and scroll and scroll to get past. The thought essays were put in a reblog, but eventually started moving to the tags. Especially when tag searching became less accurate and more bullshit, so we didn't really care what was ending up in the tags. So like... reblogging something and adding your thoughts, sharing comparisons to other things, adding another gif (especially if it's a supernatural gif, like that's a whole-ass culture thing here that has sadly faded out of fashion), is how we use this site.

#a: secret fourth option #a: no but it can get slightly complicated depending on the usage #poll #tumblr functionality #fandom issues #reposting #merlin bbc #merlin bbc: fandom issues #supernatural #merthur #fandom harassment #i dont go here #(with Supernatural + its fandom and usually try to avoid it {as in worser 'stan' parts of it} as much as possible + have it blacklisted)#(but i DONT mind generally kind Supernatural fans ALSO interacting on my posts and even my gifsets{+any other fanworks!} if theyre kind!)#({Supernatural aside} I admit Id be peeved as a gifmaker if Tumblr search was used to repost my gifs despite my rules being everywhere)#({which HAS Happened in Digimon Adventure+02 fandom especially} but usually theyre being reposted on *negative posts+'meta's+shipwar posts*#(if someone adds my gif *accidentally* to a *positive meta or ramble or related post from another fandom* I wouldnt necessarily be Pissed)#(I probably would message the reposter first myself to ask them to ask me *before using gifs in the future* but as for the *specific post*)#(*at time* yeah ill USUALLY let it go and every now and then someone used mine for a positivity commentary about my Fav!!!)#({like a headanon post about Fav being Autistic which I ADORED} I do like to review usages beforehand BC I LIKE TO SCREAM ABT SUCH THINGS)#(WITH {OTHER FANS!! + Might have my own views too} but yeah a lot of the time these things happen Super Fast people may not Realize)#({like reaction posts} so my answer here is Nuanced but overall I usually take it into My hands to message people about gif reposting first #(if they *fight me* about it is one thing but if someone made a *genuine* attempt to apologize I usually *do* Accept the Apology)#(something like this happening was just outright petty along with the really bad insults+im glad the poll kind of knocked it back down lmao #(it helped restore my faith in *good sides* of Tumblr fandom a Bit esp after so many *rude* {AntiTriTM} reposters stole my gifs for hate)#({I used to be huge into Merthur side as a lurker too esp on fic+gifs} I didnt know Destiel had similar framing that made me laugh to see!)#({and by 'Merthur side' I mean 'Merthur side that existed before 2014 on this site' most of my rbs are from that era} but yes I snerked)#({I would like to note some tags mentioned 'I just turn rbs off'+yes do now too but a lot of mine were made BEFORE that option introduced})#basically the day tumblr introduced tumblr search it became the bane of my existence i hate it SO MUCH but Actual Kind Ppl Being Kind Helps #we werent *given* option to optout of it by default so it sucks hearing from ruder reposters 'just opt out of it omg!!1!' {they dont Know}